"The Statue"
"In many refugee families, shadows float away from the present, detached, never claimed; they shift through rooms without being addressed, and yet, there is something solid that they offer us. The shadow of a statue may be the image reflected back to us when we look closer. The flick of a horse’s tail on the stairs. The absurdist iconographies of light that illume new relations among objects in altered time."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Evie Shockley on Jayne Cortez' "There It Is"
"Cortez’s trademark use of enumeratio—a rhetorical device that builds the force of an argument by offering detailed lists of the parts, causes, or effects of an issue—drives home the ruthlessness of this class of people: “They will try to exploit you / absorb you confine you / disconnect you isolate you / or kill you.” Enumeratio forms the poem’s fundamental structure." |
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